Privacy Policy

Visitors

Okanagan Cycling Guide does not collect information from not logged in visitors interacting with the site. A cookie and ip address may be tracked to allow technology to better the visitor experience during a session. Session data is cleared when a browser is closed.  Visitors may recieve third-party advertising.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. However, this does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

We do not require that you register with us in order to leave a comment on our blog, however we do require that you provide a name or pseudonym with which we may refer to you, as well as an e-mail address. Only administrators see your e-mail address and at no time is it displayed publicly. However, in order to participate in the forum, we do require you register and provide a valid e-mail before you may submit posts, but again, your e-mail address is only available to administrators and will never be publicly displayed.

If you decide to opt-in to our mailing list you must provide your name and e-mail address, and you should expect to receive periodic e-mails containing news, information and offers related to the subject matter published on The WordPress Community. Any e-mail you receive from us will contain the option to unsubscribe at the end of the e-mail, and you may unsubscribe at any time.

We employ technologies such as Woopra and/or Google Analytics to collect non-identifying information, such as your IP address, browser type, basic system configuration, what pages you view, how long you view them and other statistics that may be used for the improvement of the site’s design, or shared with advertisers, but we stress that this will never include any identifying information. We also use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits, and keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business. (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser, if you allow, that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.)

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Should you choose to contact the webmaster, your e-mail address will be used solely to reply or acknowledge your message, and will not be sold or used for any other purpose without your permission.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Terms and Conditions

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, send an email notifying you of any changes, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below.

This policy was last modified on November 19, 2008

Members

Okanagan Cycling Guide offers the ability to register as a member of the website allowing a richer community experience. Members use their email address and other personal information in the process.

  • Your email address is NEVER shown to visitors or other members of the community
  • Age, gender, and IP information may be used as an identifier during thrid-party advertising.
  • Okanagan Cycling Guidenever shares your email address with any third party.

Uploaded Material

As a member of Okanagan Cycling Guide you may upload your videos and photos.

  • Your uploaded material is viewable by all visitors and members.
  • You may, at any time, delete or remove your uploaded material
  • You may, only upload material that is your own, or you have the copyright to.

News Letter

Okanagan Cycling Guide may send out an opt-out news letters to members.

  • Members can opt out from newsletter communication.

Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites

Okanagan Cycling Guide allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the Okanagan Cycling Guide Site. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the Okanagan Cycling Guide Site. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.

Okanagan Cycling Guide does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks Okanagan Cycling Guide to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, men aged 18-34) or audience segment (for example, men aged 18-24 who have viewed certain channels of content) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the Okanagan Cycling Guide Site, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.